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24 alternatives to Bypass paywalls and read your news on the terminal
Tool that lets you read website content on the command line - trashhalo/readcli
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. Bypass paywalls and read your news on the terminal launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to aome510/hackernews-TUI development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A hackernews ncurses CLI written in GO. Contribute to andrewstuart/hn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RemovePaywallfree▲170Read articles without annoying paywalls
2022 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
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A command line tool to print out the latest posts on Hacker News to your terminal. - mtharrison/hackernews
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Strips any webpage down to just the article
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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hey hn! I (re)built this TUI tool for browsing BBC News in the terminal, it uses an RSS feed for getting headlines and previews and you can read articles too. Try it out and let me know what you think! :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.
13d ago · wallhop.io · its alternatives →
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TechCrunch CLI▲113A command line Interface for reading TechCrunch articles
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Read webpages in readability mode, inside your terminal. - desmondhume/newspaper
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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sleeek tui for hacker news. Contribute to ahmd-sh/hntui development by creating an account on GitHub.
26d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Most convenient way to track cryptocurrency news
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Feed reader for the command line. Contribute to radulucut/cleed development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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